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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 6562790, member: 66&quot;]I&#039;m not sure why New Orleans got the O, but Santinidollar may be on the right track with the common referring to the city as &quot;Orleans&quot;, but there is a problem with that.&nbsp; In mint correspondence the mint is always referred to as the New Orleans Mint and the city as New Orleans, not as Orleans.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course oddly the Carson City Mint and the city are almost always referred to as the Carson Mint and the city as Carson or Carson Nevada.&nbsp; Almost never as Carson City.&nbsp; (The original name of the city was Carson, not Carson City.)&nbsp; So why CC?</p><p><br /></p><p>Before about 1836 dies were made using individual punches, after that working dies were fully hubbed, but the master dies from which the hubs were raised were still made using individual punches.&nbsp; The Mint purchased their first reducing lathe in the latter half of the 19th century which should have reduced or eliminated the need for hand repunching although some hand touchup engraving probably still continued.&nbsp; And hand punching of dies did not die out completely.&nbsp; The Lafayette dollar dies had the lettering hand punched into the dies.&nbsp; After the Mint received their Janvier Reducing lathe in I think 1906 though the need for hand repunching probably ended completely.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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